Seriously, though, think about it. They are capable of mind control. They are each made of millions of dead sentient beings fused with cold machinery. They are a mile long and have weapons that can cut through kinetic barriers like a hot knife through butter. They have the power to twist living, thinking creatures into grotesque, mindless monsters. They are perhaps billions of years old, hyper-intelligent, and have a thought process that is entirely alien to us. Their motives and origins are unknown. They are gods of destruction, and they have been subtly guiding us towards their desired end since we first reached the starts.
Now, why the hell am I not scared to death of these guys?
Maybe it's the Giant Terminator Fetus. Or Trollbringer. Or maybe it's because the only ones we've ever been up close and personal with were Sovereign and that dead one. Now, Sov and the Derelict Reaper gave me chills, but I feel like so much more could have been done with them. Maybe they're saving it for ME3, but I seriously want to feel threatened by these guys. As in sh*t-my-pants, curl-up-in-a-corner-and-sob, scared to death of them.
Imagine watching someone's body slowly mutate into a husk/scion. Imagine your mind being slowly stripped from you, a subtle whisper in the back of your skull that builds into a bloodcurling howl, to the point where you have no choice but to obey. Imagine tiny alterations to your personality and thought-patterns twisting you into something you are not, without you noticing until it's too late. Imagine carrying their hardware inside you, melded with you to the point that removing it would mean death. Once they have you, you can't reverse it, you can't fight it. You are doomed.
Now on top of that thow in the sheer firepower of these things. Throw in their numbers. Throw in the fact that they have the power to pretty much own every fleet ever constructed with or without their crazy techno voodoo.
Holy crap, right? Problem is, playing these games hasn't made me feel that so far. The epic level of hell these babies can raise has only been hinted at. In fact, I think it was almost downplayed: I read somewhere that the Human Reaper was supposed to be more fetal and have oozing fleshy bits, but the developers were worried it would be "too disturbing." Also, Trollbringer.
Well, screw that. I am giving Bioware license to disturbing the living daylights out of me. Why? Because the alternative is just... campy. God-machines gonna eatcha, oooooohhh, scary. *wiggles fingers* Honestly, the badder these boys are, the more accomplished I'll feel when I kick their cuttlefishy asses. Assuming I can kick their cuttlefishy asses.
So what do you think? Do you want the Reapers' potential to be absolutely horrifying fully recognized? If so, how should it be done? Or does that level of psychological terror not belong in the Mass Effect universe? Or, hell, maybe you think there's enough of it in there already, and I'm just missing it somehow.
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